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Why the roads on turning slant on on eedge and up on other edge?

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while taking a turn on the roads i found that one side was high compare to the other side (means the other side was down).

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  1. Water drainage.....


  2. It is NOT for water run off.  Cambering a straight road surface would only make it more dangerous, especially under wet conditions.  The angle of the roadway, as you describe it, is to keep the weight of the car more directly "down" toward the surface as the car makes the turn.  Without this "positive camber, the car would lean outward and want to tend to slip off the surface.

    For drainage purposes, roadways are designed with a "crown" in which the CENTER of the road surface is slightly higher than the edge of the road.

  3. This is called angle of banking. This is to compansate the centri petal and centri fugal forces...

  4. It is called "camber"  A slight angle to facilitate water run off.

  5. Movement over a turning road leads some centrifugal force to drive the traffic outwards the curved path as to the vehicle's tendency to move in straight line. The slope generates balancing centripetal force helping the traffic not slipped off the road.

  6. It helps drain water off the road, and if the speed limit there is too high for that tight of a turn, they sometimes bank the road a little instead of dropping the spped limit, as a car can go around a banked curve faster than on a flat curve.

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